Audience & Marketing Manager

New York, USA (On-site)

$80K/yr – $94K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive data-informed audience growth for TED across newsletters, events, and digital platforms, coordinating campaigns and governance to boost acquisition, engagement, and long-term connection.

  • Own the strategy and execution of organic and paid acquisition, SEO/SEM, and cross-channel campaigns.
  • Must-have: Ability to partner with cross-department stakeholders to prioritize new audiences and retention.
  • Standout: Strong mix of data-driven decision making with creative, user-centered audience personas and reporting with the tech team.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive the strategy and execution of data-informed audience growth and marketing campaigns, with a focus on expanding and diversifying top-of-funnel audiences while deepening engagement in support of TED’s broader community goals.
  • Grow audiences for TED’s newsletters, events, digital platforms, and community offerings through channels like email, web, and social, as well as exploring interactive, user-driven levers.
  • Oversee the team’s broader campaign ecosystem — ensuring efforts are strategically aligned, well-coordinated and effectively resourced.
  • Support and strengthen a culture of data-informed decision-making by shaping reporting, contributing to audience research, and translating insights into actionable strategies.
  • Oversee and help to manage the team’s project roadmaps and deliverables; provide oversight around intake processes and feed into decision-making

Requirements

  • Experience developing and executing organic and paid strategies to drive awareness and engagement across initiatives (including TED.com, newsletters, events, and digital offerings)
  • Ability to partner with cross-departmental stakeholders and product owners to develop strategies prioritizing new acquisition and sustained connection with existing audiences
  • Own and execute SEO and SEM strategies to increase discoverability and drive qualified traffic
  • Initiate new community-forward tactics to grow awareness and participation in TED programs
  • Develop and maintain audience lists that can be utilized to drive full-funnel engagement across campaigns and initiatives
  • Support TED’s larger brand and marketing goals by creating cohesive, unified approaches across all initiatives
  • Exercise the 'art and science' mentality to spearhead new creative approaches while leaning on performance data to optimize campaigns
  • Analyze campaign performance and identify areas to optimize messaging, creative, channels and targeting
  • Utilize data points — behavioral data, survey feedback, social listening and competitive insights — to inform campaign strategies and ad development
  • Inform the creation and refinement of data-backed audience personas

Benefits

  • Full health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
  • Paid family leave
  • Work-life balance is encouraged through our flexible paid time off.
  • Free OneMedical and SpringHealth membership for you and your dependents to address physical and mental well-being
  • 401k with match
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TED Conferences, LLC

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TED’s mission is to discover and champion the ideas that will shape tomorrow. Powerful ideas, powerfully presented, can move us to feel something, to think differently, to take action and create a brighter future.TED finds these powerful ideas across disciplines and around the globe, from people who passionately seek a deeper understanding of the world and want to make a difference in it. TED’s spotlight, and its engaged, open-minded audience, help these ideas to create real impact: to shift one person’s perspective, to make a difference within a community or to spark global transformation. Ideas change everything.

Founded in 1984
New York, New York, USA
16K employees (2,575 in marketing)
97% recommend to a friend
63% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$113.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.4%
Direct
52.3%
Referral
11.1%
Social
1.7%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~15.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,018 (13% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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